Rail professionals

ORR’s 2023 Authorisations wrapped – 11 new and improved stations across Great Britain

26 January 2024
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The opening of a new railway station, or significant improvements to one, brings many benefits for the community it serves- often increasing a station’s capacity, improving accessibility, and providing modern facilities. So it’s important that stations are ready to enter into service as soon as possible, while making sure the organisation that built them has complied with standards covering health

Stakeholder engagement

25 January 2024
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We monitor and report on the quality of Network Rail's engagement with its stakeholder community in control period 6 (CP6).

Asset management independent reports

16 January 2024
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Network Rail's network licence includes a condition providing for independent experts (reporters) to be appointed by the network operator (Network Rail), to provide ORR with advice on different aspects of Network Rail’s performance.

Benchmarking of Network Rail’s costs

20 December 2023
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This page presents our cost benchmarking analysis of Network Rail's costs. It covers the analysis we undertook in different periodic reviews as well as reports we produced as part of our regular monitoring of Network Rail’s cost performance.

Market monitoring

15 December 2023
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This page provides information on how we perform our market monitoring duties.

All change for most used stations as Elizabeth line shakes up top 10

14 December 2023
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The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has today revealed that London Liverpool Street has replaced London Waterloo as the most used railway station in Great Britain. The opening of the Elizabeth line was a principal contributing factor in the almost 80.4 million entries and exits to Liverpool Street between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023, an increase of around 50 million.